Newsletter 325
[1]Cowboys And Pit Crews
Links:
1. http://b.rw/jrqohI
Atul Gawande | New Yorker | 26 May 2011
Inspiring commencement address delivered to Harvard medical students. Best
healthcare results in the US aren't obtained where care is most expensive
– but often where it's among least expensive. Here's why [2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/cowboys-and-pit-crews
[3]The Strauss-Kahn Shipwreck
Links:
3. http://b.rw/kRHoNZ
Paul Berman | New Republic | 26 May 2011
The arrest was bad enough. Imagine the trial, and what it will do to
French-US relations. "The ocean-liner of American justice and the ice floes
of French conspiracy theories are already bobbing in one another’s
direction" [4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/strauss-kahn-shipwreck
[5]The Optimism Bias
Links:
5. http://b.rw/kJOC5k
Tali Sharot | Time | 26 May 2011
Wonderful investigation into humans' natural optimism. "Without optimism our
ancestors might never have ventured far from their tribes and we might all
be cave dwellers, still huddled together and dreaming of light and heat"
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/optimism-bias
[7]JJ Abrams Is A Crowd Teaser
Links:
7. http://b.rw/iUF7bT
Frank Bruni | NYT | 26 May 2011
Director of "Lost" is an obsessive creator of mysteries and puzzles. Nothing
in his films gets revealed until the last possible moment, and sometimes not
even then. Which is a good recipe for suspense. But also for let-downs
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/jj-abrams-crowd-teaser
[9]Sarkozy Just Wants to Be Loved
Links:
9. http://b.rw/jrkeLg
Xavier Durringer | Spiegel | 26 May 2011
French film director discusses president's cult of personality — and the
Strauss-Kahn case. "Infidelity and extramarital affairs are normal parts of
life. France is a libertarian society; we have politicians who are a lot
like us" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/sarkozy-just-wants-be-loved
[11]Egos And Aeronautics: A Tale Of Two Airships
Links:
11. http://b.rw/jiKsky
John Swinfield | History Today | 25 May 2011
Bizarre tale of R101 airship, commissioned by British government in 1920s,
and its maiden voyage – a 4,000-mile trip to India. Crashed in flames within
eight hours killing most on board. A lesson in dangers of technological
hubris [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/egos-and-aeronautics-tale-two-airships
FiveBooks Interview
[13]Dambisa Moyo on The West vs The Rest
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dambisa-moyo-on-west-vs-rest
The author and economist argues that the West is in decline, the U.S. faces
structural unemployment, and authoritarian states like China are in many
ways better positioned to deal with financial busts
Featured Topic
[14]Moral Philosophy
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/topics/moral-philosophy
Do babies have morals? Does surveillance make us better? Is free will an
illusion or not? Is there such a thing as evil? Get to grips with the big
questions of right and wrong
Reader Recommendations
_@sophiemaynard_ musings on Lawrence of Arabia: [15]b.rw/iDQCpK
[16]#browsings
Links:
15. http://b.rw/iDQCpK
16. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
Book of the Day
[17]Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/rabbit-rest-by-john-updike
[18]Ian McEwan says: "When I feel my faith flagging in the whole enterprise
of fiction, a few pages of Updike will restore my energies"
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ian-mcewan-on-five-books-have-influenced-my-novels
Video of the Day
[19]People Of Walmart
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/videos/people-walmart
I'll take a dozen!
Quote of the Day
[20]Glen David Gold, on causality
Links:
20. http://crookedtimber.org/2011/05/25/sunnyside-fueled-by-randomness
"Such is the nature of the inexplicable that, as long as it does not
involve money, it can be ignored"